Sir William Fettes Douglas PRSA

Oil on canvas "The secret Convert"

Frank Carmichael was born in Orillia, Ontario and was the youngest member of the original Group of Seven.

Although one of the original members, he is perhaps more closely associated with the artists who joined in later years such as Fitzgerald, Casson and Holgate. he was always on the fringe of the Group, probably due to the difference in age or because he worked full time as a commercial artist. never the less, one of canadas' principal painters.

FRANK MILTON ARMINGTON

Canadian. (biog Click here)

Boddington was the second of the six sons of Edward Williams, all of whom were artists.

Born Henry John Williams, he married Clarissa Eliza Boddington In 1832 & cleverly adopted her maiden name -

This gave him a new and individual identity and set him aside from his brothers.

By 1842, with an excellent and established reputation as a painter of landscapes, particularly woodland and village scenes, he became a member of the Royal Society of British Artists. This promoted him as the only member of his family to achieve the honour.  he collaborated on occasion with the British sporting artist John Frederick Herring, Sr., who would contribute to his works by painting horses & animals into Boddington's pre prepared landscapes.

During his life, His works were exhibited at the Royal Academy and can be seen at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the National Museum of Wales, City Art Galleries of, Blackburn, Glasgow,Preston, York, Sheffield and the Museum of Fine Arts, in Boston, Mass.

Thomas Sidney Cooper

Born in Canterbury on 26 September 1803 he was a coach painter who became a scenic artist.entering the Royal Academy school in 1824.

From 1827 to 1830 he worked in Brussels, where he spent time in the studio of Eugène Verboekhoven whose animal subjects, together with those of Cuyp and Potter, had a profound effect upon him. Following the political disturbances which led to Belgian independence in 1830, Cooper returned early to London in 1831 and embarked on a very long and successful career as an animalier.

He exhibited widely, at the British Institution 1833-59 and Royal Academy 1833-1902; elected, Associate Royal Academician in 1845 and Royal Academician in 1867. He died in Canterbury on 7th.of February in 1902.

Frederick Thomas Daws. R.A. (British, b.1878)

F T Daws, Ranks amongst the most notable of British canine portraitists.
Born in London on the 2nd of October 1878, He studied at the Lambeth school of Art and exhibited widely. least of all a total of 12 works at the Royal Academy from 1896.

Widely sought after, the artist painted many portraits of rare breeds and for some highly notable owners. His works are and always have been widely collected and are represented in the Permanent Collection of the Kennel Club alongside, Maud Earl, John Emms, Frances Fairman and Arthur Wardle.

Daws found his true vocation early in life, exhibiting his paintings, "Companions in Trouble," at the Royal Academy at only the age of eighteen.

In 1896 and in 1897 he had two others accepted.
Like Binks, Daws painted many of prize dogs of well known dog fanciers. Perhaps best known among them was Mrs. Campbell-Inglis, for whom he completed many portraits of her famous poodles over a period of some twenty years.

F. T. Daws also worked in bronze and many of his models were reproduced in porcelain. He was a master of canine anatomy and his bronzes, while little known, are important records of top-winning show dogs.
In 1930 he became the main artist at the Royal Doulton Works for their Champion Dog Models.
His paintings were also reproduced on a series of thirty-six postcards, produced for Spratts Dog Food Company and he is widely collected both in print form and sought after for his original works which are too numerous to list.

His most notable however being:
The Royal tiger Shoot in Nepal, Combat tigres

The outpost

An American Monarch and The keddah Gate.

Not only was he a notable painter of dogs but also as a formidable sculptor. Exhibiting Bronzes and Oils at the Salon Des Artistes francais in paris.

He modeled for the Royal Doulton company, figurines of the Crufts Champion, Dry Toast. Dry Toast was the model used by Royal Doulton for the 'English Springer' introduced into their ‘Champions Dogs’ series in 1938.
He also sculpted:
An English Setter with pheasant.
Cocker Spaniel Lying in Basket,
Airdale Terrier Ch. 'Cotsford Topsail'
Dachshund Ch. 'Shrewd Saint" ,
Pekinese Ch. 'Biddee of Ifield',
Ch. Benign of Picardy, German Shepherd figure,
Collie Ch. 'Ashstead Applause',
Albourne Arthur, Champion Scottish Terrier
Cairn terrier, Charming Eyes
Welsh Corgi,
Cocker Spaniel, Ch. Lucky Star of Ware
'DALMATION CH GOWORTH VICTOR',
SPANIEL CHEWING HANDLE OF BASKET

Hutchinsons Book Of The Dog carries many illustrations by Daws.

he lived in Beckenham in kent until his death.

Known for his drypoint etching portraits and his magazine cover illustrations, John Knowles Hare was born in Montclair, New Jersey. He became a member of the Society of Illustrators in New York.

In the early 1900s he had designed many magazine covers and he also worked in drypoint etching, one of the more famous being "Sympathy."

J. Knowles Hare's Father was a photojournalist, Jimmy Hare.

His photo is in an ad for Corona Typewriters in 1918.

The artist was a frequent contributor of saccharine portraits of 1920's-type young women for the covers of "The Saturday Evening Post" and "The Country Gentleman" magazines. He also was responsible for the covers for Woman's Home Companion, American Magazine, This Week, Collier's, Ladies' Home Journal, LaGatta , Photoplay, Harper's Weekly, Modern Priscilla Magazine, McCall's, Delineator and the Red Cross Magazine

He designed many Ads including those for Gossard Corsets in 1924, Palmolive, Elgin, and Packar's. Santa-Coke, Better Homes and Gardens and the Campbell Kids

His wife Gladys Granger was his model for many of his magazine covers.

Known works:

Indian Headdress,Thoroughbreds, Sympathy, Bed Time, Baby's Prayer, "WILLING WORKERS", PORTRAIT DRAPED REDHEAD 12x16, IRISH SETTER, More Trouble, "Buddies", SCOTTISH TERRIER, Fox Terrier/ROB/RickRac /Bulldog. "No Worries", Temptation, Friends, I'm Bad, Violets, A Whole series called: 'Women in Sports,' Portrait of Shirley Temple, Girl with Dog, "Theodosia 1910" pastel
Portrait of Colleen Moore, Lady in blue, Little Sweetheart, Still Waters, All Mine, Dawn, The Ideal Girl, Northern Beauty, A Lady of Quality, Christina, DORIS,High Society, Aristocrats,The Indian Romance (triptich) MAY McAVOY1923, Mrs Valentino 1922, BELLE Lady with Poppies, Lady in Orange

Though there are few, Here are his landscapes we know of:

Watercolor, signed, An Inlet Scene with Fishing Vessels.
"Fishing Boats, Provincetown", c.1940; watercolor/paper, 8" x 6",
Boars at pier, 9.5 x 12.0 in. / 24.1 x 30.5 cm Watercolor
New England farm scene 20.0 x 36.0 in. / 50.8 x 91.4 cm Oil on Canvas

New England Church in a landscape. Water colour.

End of winter ( Oil Painting) 30 x40

Landscape with cottages by water's edge (water colour) 9x11
The harbour at sunset ( Oil Painting) 30 x 36
Winter harbour ( Oil Painting) 26 x 36

Midsummer, Vermont. Village in summer (watercolour) 17 x 14

Young girl eating ice cream cone on beach ( Works on paper) 26 x 21
West Indies fisherman ( Works on paper) 8 x 12

He also did many illustrations for postcards and Popular Sheet Music ie: 'Music to Poppies", and Gaines Callender, Irish setter Puppies, Cocker Spaniel, Jack Russell Terrier, English Sette

& the 1930 COPPER CLAD Calendar

His work is Represented at

Smith College Art Museum, in MA

and at the Lowe Museum of Art in Miami, Florida.

Gladys.

Typical cover Illustration

Gladys Granger.
She was a model for several famous artists, including her husband.
She was in a broadway show called "The Man Who Was" by Rudyard Kipling.
Born, in 1890 she was on broadway by 1910.  Her mother Nelly Angel was also in the same play.

In 1921 Gladys was in the silent movie "Cappy Ricks." Directed by Tom Forman